In 1969, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center was founded in Lubbock, Texas. In 1974 construction began on…
In 1969, Advanced Technology Laboratories was founded in 1969 and became one of the leading diagnostic ultrasound imaging…
In 1968, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced the first identified cases of Pontiac…
In 1967, Clara Claiborne Park, an American college English teacher, published one of the first parent memoirs about…
In 1967, Dr. H.G. Pereira and colleagues propose a relationship between human and avian flu viruses after a…
In 1967, the construction of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies was completed. the original Institute buildings were…
In 1966, U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) eradicated New World screwworm (NWS) from the United States using sterile…
In 1966, Mark Hatfield served in the State Legislature from 1951-1957; was secretary of state from 1957-1959. He…
In 1966, Thermus aquaticus was first discovered in the Mushroom Pool of Lower Geyser Basin in Yellowstone National…
In 1966, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) licensed amantadine (marketed as Symmetrel) to Du Pont, a…
On Feb. 9, 1965, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – NASA Technology of Spacecraft…
In 1965, the National Society for Autistic Children (later renamed the Autism Society of America) was founded by…
On Nov. 12, 1964, Fred Hutchinson, a standout pitcher at Seattle’s Franklin High School and ten year pitching…
On Jun. 1, 1964, the Mini-1 dialysis machine was delivered to the University of Washington (UW) Hospital and…
In May 1964, Blair Simmons and a Stanford University colleague implanted a 6-electrode array into the modiolus of…
In 1964, a new herpesvirus, Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), was discovered in cultured tumor cells derived from a Burkitt…
In 1963, the U.S. Congress established the Immunization Grant Program; polio incidence plummeted to only 396 reported cases…
In 1963, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the…
In 1963, The Health Insurance Plan (HIP) of Greater New York Study began. HIP was the first randomized…
In 1962, The Texas Heart Institute was founded by world-renowned cardiovascular surgeon Dr. Denton A. Cooley. Today, the…
On Jan. 12, 1961, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) established the Laboratory of Viral Oncology, a new intramural…
In 1961, influenza virus was first isolated from wild birds in South Africa, from common terns (Sterna hirundo)….
In 1960, the U.S. Surgeon General, in response to substantial morbidity and mortality during the 1957-58 pandemic, recommends…
On May 4, 1959, the first major addition to the University of Washington Health Sciences Building, an eight-story,…
In 1959, Lester R. Sauvage, MD founded the Reconstructive Cardiovascular Research Laboratory as a branch of Providence Seattle…
In 1959, the Salk Institute was initially envisioned by Jonas Salk, M.D., the developer of the polio vaccine,…
In 1958, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sent a team of EIS officers to…
In 1958, Hollister-Stier Laboratories became a subsidiary of Cutter Laboratories. Hollister-Stier Laboratories, located in Spokane, was founded by…
In Feb. 1957, a new influenza A (H2N2) virus emerged in East Asia, triggering a pandemic (“Asian Flu”)….
On Oct. 19, 1956, the Pacific Northwest Diabetes Research Institute (PNDRI) was founded by William B. Hutchinson, Sr.,…